Re: [Mingw-users] [OFF TOPIC] Reply to messages of the list

[David L. <yak...@ya...>]

--- El vie, 16/1/09, Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...> escribió:

> De: Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>
> Asunto: Re: [Mingw-users] [OFF TOPIC] Reply to messages of the list
> Para: min...@li...
> Fecha: viernes, 16 enero, 2009 2:02
> Quoting Greg Chicares <gch...@sb...>:
> 
> > [To make it easier to read your message and reply to
> it, please
> > break lines at some reasonable length like 72
> characters. Thanks.]
> >
> > On 2009-01-15 19:52Z, David Lucena wrote:
> >> I am subscribed to many mailing lists, and was
> time ago was
> >> subscribed to others that I finally left. But in
> all of them the
> >> way I replied a message was the same. I just only
> had to click
> >> "Reply" and it worked, probably because
> the "Reply to:" field of
> >> the message was filled with the mailing list email
> address.
> >
> > I see this header:
> >  Reply-To: MinGW Users List
> <min...@li...>
> > in the last few messages on this list. Can you
> configure your
> > email program to use the "Reply-To" header?
> >
> 
> And it has been this way from day one.  I rather thought we
> were more 
> an exception than the rule but things may have changed.  I
> use 
> HORDE/IMP for my mailer client and it provides Reply/Reply
> to 
> List/Reply to All buttons.  Reply will reply to only the
> user 
> regardless of the Reply-To header.  I suggest the issue is
> with the 
> client you're using and not the list mail headers.
> 
> >> This list does not work this way, so I usually
> commit the error
> >> of replying the user instead of the list.
> >
> > This has been discussed at length:
> > 
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=mingw+reply-to-useful+poll
> >
> 
> gmane is offline at the moment.  I'll have to look
> again later.  But 
> yes the list reply-to munging is useful IMO.
> 
> Earnie
> 
> 

I just used a web client. But I have noticed that clicking to Reply All,
just replies to the list.

Thanks and sorry.